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Hockey India League suffers third team exit. What’s plaguing the tournament?

Before UP Rudra, men’s team Team Gonasika and women’s team Odisha Warriors had pulled out of the league last month citing 'personal reasons'.

6 teams, 34 games, 15 days—rugby gets an IPL-like tournament, with a lot riding on it

The live broadcast of the tournament on Star Sports and JioStar is expected to inspire millions of viewers and get rugby a legion of Indian fans.

Trump bans transgender athletes from girls’ & women’s sports unless assigned female at birth

US President signed 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' order Wednesday. He also vowed to withhold federal funding from high schools, colleges that fail to comply with the directive.

Kho kho reborn

No longer just another game millions of Indians played in their childhood, kho kho now holds the power to change lives.

India makes formal offer to hold Olympics 2036 to IOC

New Delhi: India has submitted a 'Letter of Intent', expressing its desire to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to the International Olympic...

Born amid fires that swept southern Kashmir, a new generation of teen sportswomen pursue their dreams

In Part-4 of the J&K Despatch series—on 1st assembly polls being held in the UT in 10 yrs—ThePrint looks at how young women are defying conservatism to chase their sporting goals.

Cyclist Jankidas never represented India at Olympics. The flag story isn’t true

The official website of the Olympics confirms that no Indian cyclist competed in the cycling events in Berlin in 1936, while no Olympic games were held in 1942.

Indian coaches are ill-equipped for modern sports. That’s why we didn’t shine at Olympics

Our coaches exhibit a sheer lack of intent to keep abreast with the latest demands because they are not chosen based on their modern understanding of the game.

Saudi Arabia has embraced football but this Nike ad is making sure women don’t miss out

Nike’s inclination toward femvertising isn’t new. In 2016, it launched the Da Da Ding campaign portraying the power of Indian women. Directed by Francois Rousselet, the campaign was a hit.

Indian steeplechaser Avinash Sable betters own record after learning ‘not to take sports so seriously’

Sable completed men’s 3,000 m steeplechase at Paris Diamond League in 8:09.91, surpassing his own national record set at 2022 Commonwealth Games by over a second.

On Camera

In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

60% increase in India’s carbon emissions by 2050, coal to remain top energy source: BP Energy Outlook

The country will account for 12 percent of global energy demand by 2050 from 7 percent in 2023, adds BP report.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.